Secure Network Infrastructures for Unified Communications Deploymentsdigitallibrary
Unified communications has become a key driver for most enterprises and securing these environments is top of mind for security professionals. The network infrastructure is the "backplane" of unified communications deployments. Learn about the key threats today and tomorrow and how to utilize network security mechanisms to minimize the risk.
Unified Communications - Ten reasons organisations are switchingO2 Business UK
Hosted Lync UC supports your business as it responds to the growing trend for mobility. It’s unified communications using one of the leading platforms, Microsoft Lync,
combined with enterprise IP Voice that can replace your existing PBX. Seamlessly integrate your mobile and home workers and present them as part of the team. Make it easier for your teams to work together and share information regardless of location, either internally or with partners and suppliers. Choose from a software client, or Lync phone handsets or headsets. Hosted Lync UC is fully federated, which means users can communicate and collaborate with people outside of the organisation as long as they are using another federated service: it could be MS Lync or earlier versions of the product, or similar services like IBM Sametime, Cisco Unified Presence Server, Yahoo Messenger or Skype.
The document discusses unified communications and improving productivity. It describes how unified communications can streamline communications across devices, increase efficiency and flexibility, amplify protection and control, and maximize IT resources. Unified communications solutions are available both on-premises and in the cloud to integrate tools like instant messaging, voice, video conferencing, and email to improve collaboration and productivity.
The document discusses the features and capabilities of IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony. It allows users to seamlessly use voice, video, and telephony capabilities through integration with multiple PBX systems. It provides presence awareness, instant messaging, video and audio conferencing, file sharing, and screen sharing. Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony simplifies integrating these collaboration tools across heterogeneous communication environments.
The document discusses the challenges of managing large, diverse data sources known as "Big Data". It notes that while data volumes are growing, not all data has high value. It also outlines the emerging ecosystem of tools for distributed storage, analytics and search that are helping organizations extract value from both structured and unstructured data sources. The document concludes that both traditional and new approaches to data management and analytics have important roles to play as organizations tackle new data-driven challenges.
The document discusses consumerization of IT, which refers to employees using their personal devices and internet services for work purposes. It summarizes research from a survey of 1,600 IT professionals on consumerization trends. Key findings include that about half of organizations now encourage, accept, or tolerate the use of personal equipment for work. The majority of employees, around 85%, are estimated to be using their own devices for work activities. Senior managers and executives are often early adopters. Personal smartphones, notebooks, and tablets are commonly used both officially and unofficially. Potential benefits discussed include improved productivity and job satisfaction.
Secure Network Infrastructures for Unified Communications Deploymentsdigitallibrary
Unified communications has become a key driver for most enterprises and securing these environments is top of mind for security professionals. The network infrastructure is the "backplane" of unified communications deployments. Learn about the key threats today and tomorrow and how to utilize network security mechanisms to minimize the risk.
Unified Communications - Ten reasons organisations are switchingO2 Business UK
Hosted Lync UC supports your business as it responds to the growing trend for mobility. It’s unified communications using one of the leading platforms, Microsoft Lync,
combined with enterprise IP Voice that can replace your existing PBX. Seamlessly integrate your mobile and home workers and present them as part of the team. Make it easier for your teams to work together and share information regardless of location, either internally or with partners and suppliers. Choose from a software client, or Lync phone handsets or headsets. Hosted Lync UC is fully federated, which means users can communicate and collaborate with people outside of the organisation as long as they are using another federated service: it could be MS Lync or earlier versions of the product, or similar services like IBM Sametime, Cisco Unified Presence Server, Yahoo Messenger or Skype.
The document discusses unified communications and improving productivity. It describes how unified communications can streamline communications across devices, increase efficiency and flexibility, amplify protection and control, and maximize IT resources. Unified communications solutions are available both on-premises and in the cloud to integrate tools like instant messaging, voice, video conferencing, and email to improve collaboration and productivity.
The document discusses the features and capabilities of IBM Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony. It allows users to seamlessly use voice, video, and telephony capabilities through integration with multiple PBX systems. It provides presence awareness, instant messaging, video and audio conferencing, file sharing, and screen sharing. Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony simplifies integrating these collaboration tools across heterogeneous communication environments.
The document discusses the challenges of managing large, diverse data sources known as "Big Data". It notes that while data volumes are growing, not all data has high value. It also outlines the emerging ecosystem of tools for distributed storage, analytics and search that are helping organizations extract value from both structured and unstructured data sources. The document concludes that both traditional and new approaches to data management and analytics have important roles to play as organizations tackle new data-driven challenges.
The document discusses consumerization of IT, which refers to employees using their personal devices and internet services for work purposes. It summarizes research from a survey of 1,600 IT professionals on consumerization trends. Key findings include that about half of organizations now encourage, accept, or tolerate the use of personal equipment for work. The majority of employees, around 85%, are estimated to be using their own devices for work activities. Senior managers and executives are often early adopters. Personal smartphones, notebooks, and tablets are commonly used both officially and unofficially. Potential benefits discussed include improved productivity and job satisfaction.
Dale Vile, CEO of Freeform Dynamics Ltd, gave a presentation on cloud computing trends and perspectives. He discussed how cloud computing has evolved from hype to emerging clarity, with confusion persisting over definitions. Vile outlined different views of cloud, including technology vs services and the service stack. He noted that cloud will have a significant impact on IT delivery and management, but that a hybrid model is emerging. Looking ahead, Vile argued organizations should focus on business services rather than aiming to "move to the cloud," and that cloud represents a shift to a service-centric view of IT.
The document discusses the "consumerisation of IT" where trends and technologies originating from consumer markets are increasingly being used in business settings. This is driven by factors like improved mobile devices, cloud services, and changing user expectations of consumer technologies in their personal and professional lives. While this poses risks to corporate IT like security and manageability issues, it also presents opportunities if IT can understand and adapt to these trends rather than fight them. The document provides examples of consumer technologies entering businesses and survey results on the extent companies are seeing this occur independently of IT strategy. It also outlines a balancing act for IT in addressing concerns while embracing opportunities and tips for policies, processes and skills to help manage the consumerisation of IT.
- The document discusses cloud computing and provides perspectives from IT professionals on what qualifies as cloud computing. It addresses different cloud models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Survey results show that IT professionals view hosted services as legitimate examples of cloud computing, rather than just the enabling technology. Factors like elastic scaling of resources and pay-per-use models are also seen as important.
- There is no single definition and different workloads may be suited to different deployment models between on-premise, hosted, dedicated, or shared/dynamic environments. The key is understanding individual requirements.
Audience – Sales and pre-sales audience selling to large enterprises and government.
Occasion – Annual channel partners of Thales – April 2010
Presenter – Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics
The document discusses the need for enterprises to have a mobile strategy to address the growing use of mobility in businesses. It outlines four grades of enterprise mobile strategies that most companies currently sit at and discusses the challenges of a piecemeal approach that results in isolated "wireless islands". An effective enterprise mobility strategy needs to go beyond just mobile and should include assessing current networks and devices, user access needs, security requirements, cost minimization, and future proofing to account for new technologies and partner strategies.
- Infrastructure management is facing challenges in keeping up with user expectations of 24/7 availability as well as new technologies like virtualization.
- There is a growing need for sophisticated IT service management solutions to handle asset/change management, service level monitoring, root cause analysis, and reporting to both support processes and demonstrate business value.
- While systems management tools are developing rapidly to address these needs, effective implementation of the new solutions also requires advancement of support processes.
By Dale Vile
Evolution of licensing models
Virtualization related considerations
A scenario based analysis of options
Other licensing considerations
Top line recommendations
Comments and questions
This document discusses how adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach can help organizations respond to economic pressures. While SOA is often touted for cost and efficiency benefits, these are not always realized. To be effective during downturns, SOA requires a balanced approach that streamlines application development and maintenance, enhances business visibility and responsiveness, and drives process automation and optimization, rather than just focusing on cost cutting. The document provides advice on taking a strategic yet tactical approach to SOA adoption by beginning with real project requirements, reviewing existing initiatives, managing expectations, and ensuring business impact is considered.
The document discusses ways for companies to optimize their use of IT during an economic downturn. It recommends 3 ways to optimize the IT infrastructure, 3 ways to optimize how IT is used in the business, and 3 ways to enable the business to be more efficient. Some specific recommendations include server virtualization, desktop management, systems management, application training, mobile access, unified communications, and making smarter use of data through business intelligence. The overall message is that during tough economic times, companies should take a balanced approach to IT and focus on using IT to help drive revenue and business objectives.
The document discusses key stakeholders in financial services and the challenges they face regarding availability of management and performance information. It also discusses trends around empowering employees and shifting to broader, more continuous information delivery. Common challenges included fragmentation of systems and a lack of structured and inclusive approaches to meeting information needs.
The document discusses a survey of organizations and their commitment to green IT initiatives to reduce power consumption and environmental impact. The survey found that larger organizations have broader green policies and are further along in implementing initiatives. Respondents believe that reducing power consumption and enabling more efficient business operations through IT are important goals. However, many organizations do not accurately track or measure IT power usage at a granular level, which could help identify opportunities to minimize power consumption through solutions like server virtualization and desktop power management features. Overall green considerations are still not a prominent part of IT strategies for many organizations.
David Tebbutt discusses the context for, and the central role of, IT in an organisation's power management. He takes the listener from sustainability, through the link between climate change and energy use, all the time stressing the cost benefits of taking action. The presentation includes quick IT-powered wins for the enterprise, quick wins for IT itself and finishes with longer term suggestions which can deliver even bigger savings.
1. The document discusses topics related to IT, including the impact of the global financial crisis, virtualization, and what organizations are planning to buy.
2. It explores user perceptions of IT and virtualization adoption across different company sizes. Significant drivers for implementing virtualization include scale, geography, and compliance.
3. Challenges and barriers to desktop virtualization adoption are discussed, along with the effect of virtualization on hardware acquisition strategies and operating system selection. The need for improved virtualization management and licensing models is also examined.
This document discusses the benefits of asset management for businesses. It notes that today businesses want to reduce costs, increase agility, manage risk, and be good corporate citizens. Asset management provides visibility into IT assets which helps reduce spending and risk. The costs of not doing asset management include wasted time, money, and poor utilization of resources. Effective asset management leads to maximum return on investment, improved decision making, increased flexibility, cost savings, and supports compliance. It directly impacts financial and operational performance.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
This is achieved through:
Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
Dale Vile, CEO of Freeform Dynamics Ltd, gave a presentation on cloud computing trends and perspectives. He discussed how cloud computing has evolved from hype to emerging clarity, with confusion persisting over definitions. Vile outlined different views of cloud, including technology vs services and the service stack. He noted that cloud will have a significant impact on IT delivery and management, but that a hybrid model is emerging. Looking ahead, Vile argued organizations should focus on business services rather than aiming to "move to the cloud," and that cloud represents a shift to a service-centric view of IT.
The document discusses the "consumerisation of IT" where trends and technologies originating from consumer markets are increasingly being used in business settings. This is driven by factors like improved mobile devices, cloud services, and changing user expectations of consumer technologies in their personal and professional lives. While this poses risks to corporate IT like security and manageability issues, it also presents opportunities if IT can understand and adapt to these trends rather than fight them. The document provides examples of consumer technologies entering businesses and survey results on the extent companies are seeing this occur independently of IT strategy. It also outlines a balancing act for IT in addressing concerns while embracing opportunities and tips for policies, processes and skills to help manage the consumerisation of IT.
- The document discusses cloud computing and provides perspectives from IT professionals on what qualifies as cloud computing. It addresses different cloud models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Survey results show that IT professionals view hosted services as legitimate examples of cloud computing, rather than just the enabling technology. Factors like elastic scaling of resources and pay-per-use models are also seen as important.
- There is no single definition and different workloads may be suited to different deployment models between on-premise, hosted, dedicated, or shared/dynamic environments. The key is understanding individual requirements.
Audience – Sales and pre-sales audience selling to large enterprises and government.
Occasion – Annual channel partners of Thales – April 2010
Presenter – Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics
The document discusses the need for enterprises to have a mobile strategy to address the growing use of mobility in businesses. It outlines four grades of enterprise mobile strategies that most companies currently sit at and discusses the challenges of a piecemeal approach that results in isolated "wireless islands". An effective enterprise mobility strategy needs to go beyond just mobile and should include assessing current networks and devices, user access needs, security requirements, cost minimization, and future proofing to account for new technologies and partner strategies.
- Infrastructure management is facing challenges in keeping up with user expectations of 24/7 availability as well as new technologies like virtualization.
- There is a growing need for sophisticated IT service management solutions to handle asset/change management, service level monitoring, root cause analysis, and reporting to both support processes and demonstrate business value.
- While systems management tools are developing rapidly to address these needs, effective implementation of the new solutions also requires advancement of support processes.
By Dale Vile
Evolution of licensing models
Virtualization related considerations
A scenario based analysis of options
Other licensing considerations
Top line recommendations
Comments and questions
This document discusses how adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach can help organizations respond to economic pressures. While SOA is often touted for cost and efficiency benefits, these are not always realized. To be effective during downturns, SOA requires a balanced approach that streamlines application development and maintenance, enhances business visibility and responsiveness, and drives process automation and optimization, rather than just focusing on cost cutting. The document provides advice on taking a strategic yet tactical approach to SOA adoption by beginning with real project requirements, reviewing existing initiatives, managing expectations, and ensuring business impact is considered.
The document discusses ways for companies to optimize their use of IT during an economic downturn. It recommends 3 ways to optimize the IT infrastructure, 3 ways to optimize how IT is used in the business, and 3 ways to enable the business to be more efficient. Some specific recommendations include server virtualization, desktop management, systems management, application training, mobile access, unified communications, and making smarter use of data through business intelligence. The overall message is that during tough economic times, companies should take a balanced approach to IT and focus on using IT to help drive revenue and business objectives.
The document discusses key stakeholders in financial services and the challenges they face regarding availability of management and performance information. It also discusses trends around empowering employees and shifting to broader, more continuous information delivery. Common challenges included fragmentation of systems and a lack of structured and inclusive approaches to meeting information needs.
The document discusses a survey of organizations and their commitment to green IT initiatives to reduce power consumption and environmental impact. The survey found that larger organizations have broader green policies and are further along in implementing initiatives. Respondents believe that reducing power consumption and enabling more efficient business operations through IT are important goals. However, many organizations do not accurately track or measure IT power usage at a granular level, which could help identify opportunities to minimize power consumption through solutions like server virtualization and desktop power management features. Overall green considerations are still not a prominent part of IT strategies for many organizations.
David Tebbutt discusses the context for, and the central role of, IT in an organisation's power management. He takes the listener from sustainability, through the link between climate change and energy use, all the time stressing the cost benefits of taking action. The presentation includes quick IT-powered wins for the enterprise, quick wins for IT itself and finishes with longer term suggestions which can deliver even bigger savings.
1. The document discusses topics related to IT, including the impact of the global financial crisis, virtualization, and what organizations are planning to buy.
2. It explores user perceptions of IT and virtualization adoption across different company sizes. Significant drivers for implementing virtualization include scale, geography, and compliance.
3. Challenges and barriers to desktop virtualization adoption are discussed, along with the effect of virtualization on hardware acquisition strategies and operating system selection. The need for improved virtualization management and licensing models is also examined.
This document discusses the benefits of asset management for businesses. It notes that today businesses want to reduce costs, increase agility, manage risk, and be good corporate citizens. Asset management provides visibility into IT assets which helps reduce spending and risk. The costs of not doing asset management include wasted time, money, and poor utilization of resources. Effective asset management leads to maximum return on investment, improved decision making, increased flexibility, cost savings, and supports compliance. It directly impacts financial and operational performance.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation F...AlexanderRichford
QR Secure: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Security Validation Functions to Prevent Interaction with Malicious QR Codes.
Aim of the Study: The goal of this research was to develop a robust hybrid approach for identifying malicious and insecure URLs derived from QR codes, ensuring safe interactions.
This is achieved through:
Machine Learning Model: Predicts the likelihood of a URL being malicious.
Security Validation Functions: Ensures the derived URL has a valid certificate and proper URL format.
This innovative blend of technology aims to enhance cybersecurity measures and protect users from potential threats hidden within QR codes 🖥 🔒
This study was my first introduction to using ML which has shown me the immense potential of ML in creating more secure digital environments!
Discover the Unseen: Tailored Recommendation of Unwatched ContentScyllaDB
The session shares how JioCinema approaches ""watch discounting."" This capability ensures that if a user watched a certain amount of a show/movie, the platform no longer recommends that particular content to the user. Flawless operation of this feature promotes the discover of new content, improving the overall user experience.
JioCinema is an Indian over-the-top media streaming service owned by Viacom18.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance Panels
Unified Comms
1. Unified Comms What is it, why does it matter, and how do you get it? Dale Vile Freeform Dynamics Ltd +44 1425 620008 [email_address] www.freeformdynamics.com
3. Everyday business communication MODES OF COMMUNICATION Telephony Electronic mail Text Messaging Instant messaging Doc/screen sharing Tele-conferencing Web-conferencing
4. Everyday business communication MODES OF COMMUNICATION Telephony Electronic mail Text Messaging Instant messaging Doc/screen sharing Tele-conferencing Web-conferencing
5. Everyday business communication MODES OF COMMUNICATION Telephony Electronic mail Text Messaging Instant messaging Doc/screen sharing Tele-conferencing Web-conferencing
6. Everyday business communication Mobile voicemail Mobile voicemail Office voicemail Office voicemail SMS Inbox SMS Inbox Email Inbox Email Inbox IM cache IM cache Yellow stickies Yellow stickies
7. Everyday business communication COST & OVERHEAD PROCESS DELAYS BUSINESS RISK MISSED OPPORTUNITY USER FRUSTRATION USER FRUSTRATION
8. Enter Unified Communications UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS Presence awareness Device awareness Rules based routing Media transformation Unified directories Unified Inbox Process integration
9. How are organisations getting there? UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS PBX end-of-life/upgrade or green field office Messaging infrastructure upgrade/extension
10. The two solution provider camps UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS Traditional telephony & networking vendors Messaging/collaboration software vendors